Toji (Master Brewer)
Mami Wakabayashi (若林真実)
Toji (Master Brewer), Wakabayashi Brewing (若林醸造)
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Portrait of Mami Wakabayashi (若林真実)
i. Biography
Mami Wakabayashi (若林真実) is the brewer and toji at Wakabayashi Brewery (若林醸造) in Ueda, Nagano, where she has worked since 2016 and helped revive full-scale sake production at the family brewery. She is a female toji who returned from office work in Tokyo to restart sake brewing at the brewery.
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